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...suffering of his own people. By offering direct humanitarian assistance and asking others to do the same, America has the opportunity to regain some semblance of moral leadership on this issue. The U.S. must make good on former president George H.W. Bush's claim that America's quarrel is with Hussein, not with the Iraqi people...
...prelude to the Gulf War, then-President George H. W. Bush declared, "Our quarrel is not with the people of Iraq. We do not wish for them to suffer. The world's quarrel is with the dictator who ordered that invasion." Few could have expected such rhetoric to be accompanied by a frontal assault against the Iraqi people. By lifting the sanctions against Iraq, President George W. Bush has an opportunity to fulfill the promise his father should have kept...
...Todd D. Rakoff '68, a colleague of Weiler's at the law school, said yesterday that Weiler "liked it here. There was no quarrel, no animosity [involved in his leaving...
...William Allen White describes the Senate of the same era as "plutocratic feudalism." The description holds. Who could resist Missouri's Thomas Hart Benton, who, on the day a colleague in the Senate accused him of being quarrelsome, replied: "Mr. President, sir... I never quarrel, sir. But sometimes I fight, sir, and whenever I fight, sir, a funeral follows...
...less reliable, no longer resembling the person Michael had admired. Steven wasn't crazy, Michael says, just increasingly moody and self-centered. About six years ago, their father was hospitalized, and the brothers went to Florida to see him. They stayed with their stepmother, with whom Steven had a quarrel. Steven told Michael he was going to the hospital to tell their father about it. "It was ridiculous," Michael says. "My father was at death's door, and my brother wanted to complain to him about my stepmother! I had to physically restrain him from going...